Aramaean

Meaning

Noun

Any member of a West Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in the Levant and later also in upper Mesopotamia (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They spoke Aramaic.

Adj

Of or pertaining to Aramaeans or Aram.

Name

The Aramaic language.

Synonyms

Aramean

Aramaic

Translations

araméen

arameano

aramaico

آرَامِيَّة

arameo

arameo

Arami

Araméen

araméenne

Araméenne

aramaico

arameus

Aramees

Arameeër

Hyphenated as

A‧ra‧mae‧an

Pronounced as (IPA)

/æ.ɹəˈmiː.ən/

Etymology

From the Latin Aramaeī, from the Ancient Greek Ἀραμαῖοι (Aramaîoi), from Hebrew ארם (aram), the biblical name of a land of Upper Mesopotamia falling within modern Syria.